On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Christopher Michael
> <cp.mich...@samsung.com> wrote:
> > On 05/09/12 13:56, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, September 5, 2012, Enlightenment SVN wrote:
> >>> Log:
> >>> Elementary: Revert all framespace changes.
> >>>
> >>>    NB: This means elm will be broken in wayland for a while while I
> sort
> >>>    out what went wrong in evas.
> >>
> >> What if you do these in a branch, or GIT, and leave us with some stable
> >> Evas for a while?
> >
> > HAHAHA...git....better chance of getting pregnant :)
> >
> > Is Evas not stable ? Are you having problems with running things in X11
> > because of this ?
> >
> >> Sync on regular bases, but after you feel solid about the idea.
> > I think you mean, when everyone else feels solid about the idea, right ?
>
> It's so much better if no one see or use your code and suddenly on a
> friday night it come like a storm. So that nobody is able to follow
> what the hell is going on... Resulting in bugs lurking around for
> days...
>

It's the same net effect AT THE END. But my suggested approach you get less
noise.

1 - there is no need to revert a patch in SVN, given that you did not
commit it. The net result is the same, no code, or just the fixed code
(commit, revert, commit-fix), but without the intermediate trouble for
people.
2 - the window of time that it's broken is smaller, as per #1
3 - if a storm happens, as you say, you can easily detect as the commits
are nearby. You can also more easily follow the patch contents and history
as they are very close, or exact siblings at
trac.enlightenment.orgtimeline, your mail agent... You do not get drop
by drop over weeks that
can let you lost the overall idea.

It's also a nice exercise on how to get the workflow fixed for git. If
you're using git then the integrator or the gerrit tool will work just like
that, merging a patchset and not some random patches now and then tied to
"Save" action of your editor.


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